Posted by Chris Jones on October 30, 2014 at 15:50:05 from (65.188.217.236):
In Reply to: Loader forks ideas posted by Chris Jones on October 29, 2014 at 06:10:45:
Thank you everyone. IMHO if you have a loader you should be able to use it as a carry-all and here's what I've decided.
Dachshund's said use motor grader cutting edges. I have one that is 7 foot already! I have two holes in the bottom of my bucket where something was previously bolted (one on each side). I find that I can cut the 7 foot grader blade in half and line up an existing hole in it with the hole in the bottom of the bucket. Take a heavy piece of steel and put it inside the bucket over the hole extending out the bucket to meet the next hole in the grader blade and bolt all this together sandwiching the bucket using the same type bolts that were used on the grader. I'll probably need a spacer in front the bucket's cutting edge. This would create effectively 2 foot forks. There would be 1.5 foot of the forks extending under the bucket--actually behind it a couple inches.
This should be enough for me. At least I can lift a log or some lumber or pipe or whatever. And at only 2 foot long they should be a lot less likely to tweak the bucket than 3 or 4 foot forks for those times I loan it to the less careful. :)
Going further I can see adding some planking for a platform and sparepartsTN's idea would be useful in that I could extend these forks with 2X4s if I need longer ones for moving a light pallet, a larger platform or something bulky.
Again, thank you everyone for the advise, and especially thanks to Dachshund and sparepartsTN for the creative thinking.
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